AO 03698

~2046 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P480975

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Transliteration

4(asz) sze gur lugal
la2-ia3 su-ga
ki szesz-kal-la-ta
kiszib3 i-ta-e3-a
iti szu-numun
mu ki-masz ba-hul
i-ta-e3-a
dub-sar
dumu lu2-du10-ga
sanga nin-gir2-su

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AO 03698. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P480975) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P480975..

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